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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The body of Tariq Aziz, the only Christian in Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, arrived Jordan .

The body arrived in Jordan’s capital, Amman, early Saturday. Authorities took it to a local morgue, where Aziz’s son, Ziad, and others met it. Some Baath Party supporters chanted outside the hospital.

Aziz died June 5 at age 79. He had been in prison since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and suffered a series of strokes. He faced execution for his role in a government that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

Jordan’s government agreed to a request by Aziz’s family to bury him in Jordan. After an autopsy, Aziz’s daughter, Zeinab, said her father’s body went missing at Baghdad International Airport. Authorities said a delay occurred over missing documents.